Apple TV+ has no plans to quit the spy game. Slow Horses, based on the Slough House series of novels, has performed extremely well on Apple TV+ since its premiere in 2022, with the platform announcing an early season 6 renewal for the hit spy thriller. What it did is not surprising.
According to Tech Radar, Slow Horses has officially been renewed for season 6, and the news comes just as season 4 ended on Apple TV+. This represents an early renewal for the series, as season 5 is scheduled to begin in January and debut sometime in 2025.
The series’ sixth season is expected to see spies on the run, caught up in a “high-stakes game of revenge,” courtesy of MI5’s Deputy Director General Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas). There is. Season 6 is inspired by the sixth and seventh books in Mick Heron’s novel series, respectively titled Joe Country. Season 1 took inspiration from Slow Horses, season 2 adapted Dead Lions, and seasons 3 and 4 featured Real Tigers and Spook Street. So far, all seasons consist of six episodes each.
Slow Horses is an award nominee for Apple TV+
Slow Horses was a huge hit on Apple TV+. The streamer hasn’t announced proper numbers for the series, but star Gary Oldman and co-star Jack Lowden received BAFTA and Emmy nominations, with Oldman also nominated for a Golden Globe for his work. and is a candidate for an award. . The series’ most important award was its writing, with Will Smith receiving a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the show. The series was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series this year.
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Season 5 has already been confirmed and will introduce the large cast that makes up Slow Horse and many of the agents of Slough House.
The show’s reviews have also been surprisingly solid, with a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site has up-to-date scores for all four seasons, with seasons 2 and 4 scoring 100 percent, and seasons 1 and 3 scoring 95 percent and 98 percent, respectively. The site’s consensus is: “Slow Horses reinvents the spy genre by giving a masterclass in Gary Oldman’s gruff authority and making Snoop’s gang clumsy.”
Slow Horse follows a group of MI5 work refusers through Slough House, a gathering place for people who have failed in their mission but were not dismissed for incompetence. Those assigned to Slough House must endure uninspiring work like paper pushing while enduring abuse from their boss, Jackson Lamb (Oldman). But while Slough House appears to be a rock bottom case, the crew find themselves embroiled in some of Britain’s biggest and most serious cases. The series also stars Sophie Okenedo, Jonathan Pryce, and Hugo Weaving.
Slow Horses is an adaptation of CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron’s first novel in the Slow Horses series, and follows the story of a British man working at Slow House, MI5’s garbage dump division. It depicts a team of secret agents. Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, a brilliant but short-tempered spy leader who is sent to Slough House after a career-ending mistake.
Release date: April 1, 2022
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